Monster Hunter, start with a wife!

Yida Plaza.

Zhao Shichang's pig-like screams continued.

The force applied by the jar was just right, peeling away his stone armor piece by piece, leaving his skin torn and bleeding, but it never reached Lingxi's threshold for serious injury.

Zhao Shichang seemed to realize that it was deliberately tormenting him, and quickly deactivated the stone armor.

But the jar clearly wasn't going to let him off the hook.

It sprang up suddenly, then fell heavily back down.

"Snap!"

"ah--"

Zhao Shichang's right leg bent at an angle that defied common sense, and his trouser leg was instantly soaked in blood, leaving a glaring pool of blood on the ground.

"Guagua, come back."

Cheng Zhuo stepped forward and waved.

Amidst the shocked gazes of the crowd,

The furry beast that had been tormenting Zhao Shichang suddenly appeared beside Cheng Zhuo.

Only then did they get a clear look at the ferocious beast...

Is it a kitten?

It nuzzled Cheng Zhuo's leg affectionately with its big head, looking completely harmless. Apart from being much larger than a typical kitten, it didn't resemble a ferocious beast that would skin someone alive.

Wei Qingfeng and Pang Wei, who were standing to the side, gasped and looked at each other in disbelief.

"Brother Wei, that beast belongs to that good-for-nothing Cheng Zhuo," Wei Qingfeng whispered.

"I saw it."

"What should we do...we've been saying bad things about him."

"What you said has nothing to do with me. I was just implying something, and I was actually talking about you."

"???"

At this moment, the live stream chat exploded with excitement—

"Holy crap, that beast belongs to this F-rank summoner?"

"Why?! How can an F-rank summoned beast be so terrifying?"

"I can only think of one possibility: he just fused with an epic meditation card."

"Epic-level meditation techniques wouldn't reach this level; it's probably legendary!"

"Legendary? Is this guy a saint who's been benevolent for nine lifetimes? How incredibly lucky must he be to open a legendary meditation card with a porcupine!"

"Luck is also a part of ability."

"If it were me, I probably would have surrendered the blind core earlier. I can only say this guy has the luck."

"Wow, I'm an F-rank summoner too. I dream about beating up the high-ranking Kashu who bullied me back then, but my summoned Border Collie runs away faster than me when danger comes!"

"Ex-girlfriend: Is it too late to turn back now? I'm waiting for your reply, it's urgent..."

……

Cheng Zhuo patted Guan Guan's head and praised him.

The little guy got so bloody, yet he was completely clean, without a speck of blood or dirt on him.

Just as he predicted, it was a complete rout.

Cheng Zhuo paced back and forth, step by step, until he reached Zhao Shichang.

"Yes, it's you, it's your summoned beast?!"

Zhao Shichang propped himself up with his arms, his body trembling with excruciating pain from his broken leg. He looked at Cheng Zhuo with a look of utter horror.

"How is that possible? That thing must have reached the next level! Could it be that your blind core activation just now was legendary level...? Impossible, impossible!!"

"Nothing is impossible."

Cheng Zhuo looked down at him.

Zhao Shichang swallowed hard.

For some reason, just a moment ago,

He felt as if he were crawling at the feet of an ancient, colossal beast...

"Will you go by yourself, or should I take you?" Cheng Zhuo asked casually.

"I, I, I can do it myself." Zhao Shichang's pupils widened in surprise, and he immediately activated his Lingxi Terminal Shield.

The shield rises.

Cheng Zhuo stood up and looked at Su Wantong, the only remaining team member on the opposite side.

"Cheng Zhuo, Tongtong has already left the team!"

Anuo hurriedly put away his bow and stepped in front of Su Wantong.

Looking into Cheng Zhuo's emotionless and indifferent eyes, she was really worried that Cheng Zhuo would take action at any moment.

If Cheng Zhuo knew what she was thinking, he would definitely cry foul.

Just now, in order to scare Zhao Shichang, he activated the dragon-type attribute enhancement, and a dragon eye appeared in his pupils for a moment. The look in his eyes was just a residual effect.

He and Su Wantong broke up peacefully, so there was no reason for them to fight at this moment.

"Tongtong, hurry up and back off!" Anuo urged, turning around.

Su Wantong looked at Cheng Zhuo, her eyes swirling with complex emotions.

She didn't believe Cheng Zhuo would lay a hand on her, but she couldn't bring herself to beg for even a shred of pity.

"Click—"

With a crisp sound, a pale white shield enveloped her like an eggshell.

Su Wantong activated the Spirit Shield on her own initiative.

She walked step by step toward Cheng Zhuo, her voice still carrying a hint of stubbornness and reproach:

"You do always manage to surprise people, but even if you obtain advanced meditation techniques, you're still just a slightly stronger ant. Don't you understand? You shouldn't offend him; you should learn to be patient!"

"Maybe."

Cheng Zhuo said casually, brushing past her without paying her any attention, and then turned to An Nuo and the other two, saying:

"Let's go, we've been delayed a bit, let's go hunting."

Cheng Zhuo didn't hold any resentment towards Su Wantong.

He was once attracted by Su Wantong's vivacity and beauty, but after they got together, he realized that her true nature was melancholic, and beneath her smiling exterior lay a soul prone to anxiety and insecurity.

It evokes pity, but it also drains one's enthusiasm.

The root of this personality trait lies in her suffocating family background.

She has three stepmothers, more than a dozen siblings, and her father is a Tier 1 hunter with E-level talent. He has a decent income, but like Cheng Zhuo's alcoholic father, he is also an alcoholic and a gambler.

Even worse, he was a domestic abuser.

The whole family depended on him for survival.

Su Wantong had longed for life in the inner city since she was a child, and it had almost become an obsession.

Therefore, when Zhao Shichang appeared in her life, she was clearly unhappy, but she couldn't bring herself to refuse him.

She had hoped that after awakening, she could escape all of this.

But after only achieving a D-rank, she lost her motivation, especially after Cheng Zhuo's F-rank, which completely shattered her hope.

Although Cheng Zhuo thought that D-level was quite good, Su Wantong only needed to endure a few years of hardship to enter the inner city on her own, and did not necessarily need to rely on others.

But everyone has their own aspirations, and Cheng Zhuo cannot control other people's choices.

Some people persevere through hardship and live towards the sun.

Some people will be swallowed up by suffering and fall into the abyss.

Neither choice is difficult to understand.

The shield's light grew brighter and brighter, blurring Cheng Zhuo's silhouette even further.

Su Wantong bit her red lips so hard that her teeth almost dug into her flesh.

I don't know if it was shame, anger, or something else.

"Cheng Zhuo!!!"

She suddenly screamed hysterically:

"If you're really capable, keep walking with your head held high. Don't let me ever see you kneeling before someone, begging for mercy—I'll laugh at you! I definitely will!!"

Cheng Zhuo paused for a moment, but did not stop.

There was no reply.

"Tongtong..."

Anno, standing to the side, felt a bitter taste in his throat.

Only she knew that Su Wantong had once really liked Cheng Zhuo.

Countless nights spent chatting with my best friends,

Whenever Cheng Zhuo is mentioned, Su Wantong's eyes light up as if they are filled with stars.

Unfortunately, she was still defeated by reality.

Anuo, her best friend, could understand her choice, but she couldn't agree with it.

"Buzz—"

Suddenly, a deep engine roar came from afar.

A streamlined, silver-gray aircraft flew in rapidly and landed steadily.

Several Hunters quickly took away the four people who had activated their shields.

From the start of the competition to the end,

Everything happened too fast.

If it weren't for Lingxi's prompting, Anuo and the other two would have been completely taken aback. They had already resigned themselves to being eliminated in the PK, but they had won so easily.

However, the actions of one of the Hunter's Army soldiers took them somewhat by surprise.

He walked up to Cheng Zhuo expressionlessly and said in a commanding tone:

"Come with me, the deputy director wants to see you."

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P.S.: I've noticed many people think this is an attempt to whitewash the ex-girlfriend. Perhaps my expression is limited, but what I'm trying to say is that the ex-girlfriend's feelings for him were genuine, as was her greed for his wealth. She's just a conflicted character, wanting to have it all. If there were no feelings involved, like those ex-girlfriends who immediately cheat on the male lead, wouldn't the male lead who ended up with him be nothing but a bitter, resentful fool?

So be it.

I don't want to change her into a completely rotten person anymore, otherwise it would seem ridiculously stupid for the male lead to agree to be with her.

There are plenty of beautiful women, so don't worry, the male lead won't go back to his ex. After all, no matter how hard his ex-girlfriend went through, being materialistic was her choice, and she already had the ability to improve herself.